Improvement in salvers



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Salvers.

Patented Dec. 2, 1873.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

:LNDRE l-I. BAGGS, OF BRIDGEPORT, OlllO, ASSIGXOl-t TO LA BELLE GLASS COMPANY,-OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SALVERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 145.145, dated December 2, 1 -473; application filed October 13, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW H. Bases, of Bridgeport, in the countyof Belmont and State of Ohio, have invented a. new and useful Improvement in Salvers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, in which-- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same.

Similar letters of reference in the accompanying drawings denote the same'parts.

Salvers or cake-stands made entirely of glass have heretofore been constructed with the top and its standard or pedestal made in one piece. This construction of the salver is objectionable for several reasons, prominent among which are the following: In shipping glass salvers from the glass-factory to the points where they are sold, incasks or other receptacles, itis found that a cash having a capacity for holding two dozen and a half salvers made in one piece will hold fifteen dozen salvers when the latter are made in two parts, as hereinafter described in my invention, thus materially affecting the cost of transportation, while obviously there is less straw employed in packing, and less liability of breakage in the transportatiomwhen the top is detached from its pedestal or base, as in my invention. Another disadvantage connected with the employment of a salvcr made in one piece is, that when the top or pedestal is broken the salver becomes useless. These disadvantages of construction apply not. only to salvers, but also to goblets and similar articles of glassware. To remedy these defects, goblets have heretofore been constructed in which the bowl has been made detachable from the stem or standard, a screw-joint being employed to connect the stem with the bowl; but heretofore a metallic band has been applied to the bottom of the bowl, in which the female screw is formed, which is made to engage with a male screw on a stud at the upper extremity of the foot or pedestal. By this construction the bowls of the goblets may be detached from their pedestals, and a greater number transported in a cask, with less danger of breakage,

than when made in one piece, and thus some of the objections to making such articles in one piece obviated; but such construction is objectionable for several reasons, among which may be enume "ated the following: First, the metallic band or bottom, in which the female screw is made, afi'ects the appearance of the goblet when the parts are united, impairing its beauty; secondly, the construction is more expensive, as a metallic band or bottom must be employed; thirdly, the parts are liable to become detached, causing danger of breakage of the parts, particularly of the top of the goblet; and, fourthly, there is danger of break age at the junction of the top with the pcdes tal, when the solver is moved from one position to another, by the bearing of the metal on the glass.

To obviate these defects is the object of my invention, which consists in making the salver entirely of glass, and so constructing the parts that the top may be readily detached from its pedestal for transportation, or to supply the place of a broken foot or top. The top of the salver is also provided with a scrcw'stem, which engages with a corresponding female screw made in the top of the standard, the latter having a recess to receive an elastic washer, which prevents the screw from turning, and in a great degree obviates danger of breakage at or near the junction of the pod estal with the top of the salver.

That others may fully understand my im provement, I will particularly describe it.

A is the salver, and B its leg or pedestal. These are formed separately, in proper molds or otherwise, by processes well understood in the art. At the center, on its under side, the salver A is provided with a boss or disk, (1, and projecting therefrom a stud, c, with a coarse screw-thread molded on its surface. The pedestal B has a corresponding female screw, (1, penetrating its upper end, whereby the salvcr and pedestal may be firmly united. Surrounding the said female screw there is an annular recess, 1), within which is placed an elastic washer or rin The employment of an elastic washer, lo cated in the recess b in the upper end of the standard, on which washer the boss a on the under surface of the top of the salver bears, performs the function 0t preventing the screw from turning, and at the same time, by its elasticity, obviates, in a great degree, the danger of breakage at the junction of the top with the pedestal. i

Having described my improvement, what I claim as new is- As a new article of niannfiicture, the salver herein described, made entireb of glass, and consisting of the top A, provided with the boss 0, and screw-stem 0, and the pedestal B, having the female screw (1 and recess b, to receive an elastic washer, as set forth.

ANDREW H. BALGGS.

Witnesses:

MELVILLE CHURCH, WM. READ. 

